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Yu-Guo Tao
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 23
Citations - 754
Yu-Guo Tao is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Shear flow & Singlet state. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 23 publications receiving 703 citations. Previous affiliations of Yu-Guo Tao include Jilin University & University of Twente.
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Catalytic Nanomotors: Self-Propelled Sphere Dimers
Leonardo F. Valadares,Yu-Guo Tao,Nicole S. Zacharia,Vladimir Kitaev,Fernando Galembeck,Raymond Kapral,Geoffrey A. Ozin +6 more
TL;DR: The rotational and translational dynamics of the sphere dimer are found to be in good accord with the predictions of computer simulations.
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Design of chemically propelled nanodimer motors.
Yu-Guo Tao,Raymond Kapral +1 more
TL;DR: Dimmers can be designed so that the directed motion along the internuclear axis occurs in either direction and is much larger than the thermal velocity fluctuations, a condition needed for such nanodimers to perform tasks involving targeted dynamics.
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Swimming upstream: self-propelled nanodimer motors in a flow
Yu-Guo Tao,Raymond Kapral +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the dynamics of chemically-powered self-propelled nanodimer motors in a fluid flow are investigated, where the dimer motors are confined to move in a square channel within which a Poiseuille-like fluid flow exists.
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Kayaking and wagging of rods in shear flow.
TL;DR: The simulation of periodic collective orientational motions performed by rigid liquid-crystalline polymers with large aspect ratio in the nematic state in shear flow using a new, event-driven Brownian dynamics technique finds that the tumbling periods depend on Lphi/d and the shear rate but not on the type of motion.
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Isotropic-nematic spinodals of rigid long thin rodlike colloids by event-driven Brownian dynamics simulations
TL;DR: The shear induced shifts of thespinodals are investigated, qualitatively confirming the theoretical prediction of the critical shear rate at which the two spinodals merge and the isotropic-nematic phase transition ceases to exist.